A distinguished computational linguist from the University of Colorado, Professor Martha Palmer, is about to begin a lecture in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh under the title ...

We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. We begin our ...

It is often assumed that there is a sharp division between phonetic and phonological processes, but the two are often strikingly similar, as in the case of phonetic consonant--vowel coarticulation and ...

Phonetics and speech science encompass the systematic study of the sounds produced by the human vocal apparatus and their subsequent transmission, perception and cognitive processing. Bridging the ...

David Hart, a professor of Russian at Brigham Young University, will deliver the 2006-2007 James L. Barker Lecture in Language and Linguistics on Thursday, Nov. 9 at 11 a.m. in B092 Joseph F. Smith ...

BYU faculty member Randall Jones will discuss multilingualism at the International Forum Series Wednesday, Oct. 24. 'Multilingualism is relevant to everyone because of our modern global world,' said ...